China intensifies disaster-relief work as aftershocks jolt quake-hit areas
13/5/2008 16:46
China is trying to step up its disaster-relief work, with the State
Council setting up an emergency command in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province
yesterday, as aftershocks jolted quake-hit areas in southwest China.
Premier
Wen Jiabao held a meeting at the emergency command yesterday evening with
officials from the State Seismological Bureau and Ministry of Civil Affairs to
work out plans for disaster relief.
As of 8:00 today, two aftershocks
measuring 6 on the Richter scale and 16 aftershocks measuring 5 had been
recorded in disaster-hit areas in southwest China following a 7.8-magnitude
earthquake in Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province yesterday.
The results were
released by Chinese organizations of seismological studies, which are doing
earthquake monitoring in those areas. To better monitor the aftershocks, a
national team of on-spot monitoring and their counterparts in Yunnan, Chongqing,
Qinghai, Gansu and Shaanxi were sent to disaster-hit areas.
Two teams for
emergency disaster-relief work, with a total of 214 members, flied from Beijing
yesterday evening to go to Wenchuan. The teams contain 44 seismologists and
staffs for emergency aid, 22 medical workers from the hospitals of armed police
and 148 specially-trained soldiers for disaster-relief.
Xinhua
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